Magnificent Manitoba Towns Quiz | Canada

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1. A giant turtle! Turtle races! Over twenty outdoor murals! What Manitoba town boasts such attractions close to the Turtle Mountain?

Answer: Boissevain

Boissevain is located in the southwest corner of Manitoba, close to the Turtle Mountains and the International Peace Gardens. The statue of "Tommy the Turtle" stands about 28 feet high and weighs about five tons! Every summer, there are turtle races during the town's annual turtle festival, featuring the Western Painted Turtle. The town's murals largely depict the area's history.

2. A town in Manitoba named for an American writer? Located near the US-Canada border and situated on the banks of the Red River, what town is home to the busiest border crossing on the Canadian prairies?

Answer: Emerson

The town was named after Ralph Waldo Emerson the American poet, essayist, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement. The town of Emerson boasts many historic buildings and is located close to the original site of Fort Dufferin. The Fort was the starting point for an 840-mile trip west to the Rockies by 300 members of the North West Mounted Police in 1874, and was the base for the international commission that marked the Canada-US boundary. (Pembina is the American town located across the border from Emerson in Manitoba.)

3. A beaver statue! A French-named community with Ukrainian heritage? There's a near-by lake of the same name. What small Manitoba city is nestled in the valley between the Riding Mountain and Duck Mountain parks?

Answer: Dauphin

Dauphin was the title given to the king's eldest son, the heir to the throne of France. The city of Dauphin is located in the Parkland area of Manitoba. When entering Dauphin from the south, one is greeted by a statute of the beaver, Amisk. The 11,000-seat amphitheatre located south of Dauphin on the edge of the Riding Mountain is Selo Ukaina, home to Canada's National Ukrainian Festival and CountryFest, as well the Ukrainian Heritage Village museum.

(Ste. Rose du Lac and Laurier are both French communities located east of Dauphin.)

4. Located at the historic fork of the Red and Assiniboine River, while the Seine and La Salle Rivers also meander through and around, what Manitoba city boasts a history of forts, fur-trade rivalries, and rebellion?

Answer: Winnipeg

Winnipeg means "muddy waters" and was a place frequented by aboriginal people for thousands of years. Winnipeg was the site of Fort Rouge (1783), Fort Gibraltar (1809), Fort Douglas (1812), and Fort Garry (1822). The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company competed during the fur-trade, and in 1869 to 1870, the Red River Rebellion, led by Louis Riel, resulted in the formation of the province of Manitoba. Today "The Forks" of the Red and Assiniboine rivers are a wonderful place to tour, shop, and enjoy a variety of entertainment.

5. What Manitoba town, built on rock and named after a fictitious story-book character who finds a gold mine at the bottom of a lake, is home to a marijuana grow-operation sanctioned by the government of Canada?

Answer: Flin Flon

Located by the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border, the town of Flin Flon was named when prospector Tom Creighton found a vein of copper which reminded him of the book, "The Sunless City" by J.E. Preston Muddock in which the character Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin discovers a hole lined with gold at the bottom of a lake. The Saskatchewan side of the town is named after Creighton himself.

6. The Wheat Kings hockey team! The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum! Assiniboine Community College and the university's Bobcats. What city in South-West Manitoba is home to the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair?

Answer: Brandon

Located on the banks of the Assiniboine River in South-West Manitoba, Brandon is the second largest city in the province. The Brandon Wheat Kings play in Canada's Western Hockey League while the Brandon University Bobcats compete in such sports as basketball and volleyball.

The city hosts the week-long Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in March, as well as a summer fair in June and the Manitoba Livestock Expo in November.

7. Polar bears! Beluga whales! In what Northern Manitoba town on Hudson Bay would one find Canada's primary seaport to the Arctic Ocean?

Answer: Churchill

Historically home to the Thule, Dene, Inuit, Chipewyan, and Cree people, the town of Churchill can trace its first permanent settlement to the fur-trade in the early eighteenth century. The town, known by some as the "polar bear capital of the world," is famous for its ecotourism and Arctic research. The Port of Churchill is known as a site for grain export from Canada.

8. Including the adjoining Opaskwayak Cree Nation and Rural Municipality of Kelsey, what Northern Manitoba city boasts a population of about 15,000, is home to the OCN Blizzard junior hockey team, and is famous for its lumber industry?

Answer: The Pas

The Cree were the original inhabitants of the area and Henry Kelsey was likely the first European to the area in the early 1690s with the Hudson's Bay Company. The OCN Blizzard plays in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, though the city is also home to minor hockey's Huskies as well as its high school's Spartans.

9. The Oil Capital of Manitoba! What western Manitoba town is located at the junction of the TransCanada Highway and Highway 83, which runs from 300km north then south all the way to Mexico?

Answer: Virden

Oil was first discovered in 1956 and the town is located by one of Manitoba's largest oil fields. The town has the Virden Pioneer Home Museum, known as the "Victorian Home on the Prairies" which contains historic artifacts from the area. Virden is deemed to be the midpoint between Winnipeg and Regina on the Canadian prairies.

10. The Northwest Round-up and Exhibition! What Manitoba town is nestled in the valley between the Duck and Porcupine Mountain?

Answer: Swan River

The town of Swan River is situated on the river of the same name. The town's industry is based on agriculture and forestry. Highway 83 begins in Swan River and runs to Mexico. The Northwest Round-up, town's annual rodeo and exhibition provides a wide variety of entertainment opportunities.

Source: Author Cher40

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